I'm starting to get a little concerned. There's only two issues left of the series and I just can't see how it's all going to wrap up. Though, admittedly, that's also a little exciting. I hate reading a story and knowing how it's going to turn out. Worse is reading a story and figuring out how it's going to turn out. I cannot figure out how all this is going to turn out.
There's some weird dimension-hopping in this issue that I can only assume is going to come back and bite the heroes in their collective butts, but in recognizing this, I'm starting to see the series in very different light. For a long while I'd seen it as the story of a man fighting, literally, against himself for the future of the universe. And that's still a major component of the series. But there's also a subplot that might actually be the main plot of an incursion into Prophet's dimension by an alien entity, one that is corrupted by its presence in our reality. Interestingly, this is quite similar to the story of Secret Wars that we've just finished tangentially reading in The Avengers. I find this a curious story to tell - what is it about our reality that corrupts something not from our reality?
And then, of course, I start thinking on a more Biblical level. Because, really, isn't the story of Jesus the story of a creature from another reality coming to our reality and getting corrupted? And before you point out to me that Christ doesn't actually get corrupted in his story in the Bible, I'd like to point out the corruption of his teachings that fuel much of our current strife in North America, if not around the world. Perhaps the big mythic story that superheroes are trying to tell, the one that Superman starts us out with, isn't about a strange visitor coming to save us, but rather about a strange visitor who could save us, if we weren't so fucking stupid.
Oh. I think I'm feeling a bit pessimistic today.
To be continued.
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